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Register now for JMIH 2017!

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Register now to attend the 2017 Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists!

*You will need to create a new profile upon registering this year.  Your old password and username will not work.

July 12-16, 2017
Austin Renaissance, Austin, TX 

Abstract Submission: Deadline – March 22, 2017
Attendee Registration: Early Deadline – May 19, 2017
Exhibitor Registration: Deadline – May 31, 2017
Hotel Reservations: Deadline – June 19, 2017


Meeting information is available at
http://conferences.k-state.edu/JMIH-Austin-2017


Sponsoring Societies:
American Elasmobranch Society
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Herpetologists’ League
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

Visiting Society: 
The Early Life History Section of the American Fisheries Society

Herpetological Review 48(1) released!

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HR March 2017, Volume 48, Number 1. Our cover features a field photo of an adult Coleonyx reticulatus (Reticulate Banded Gecko), photographed by Noah Fields. This issue is scheduled to be mailed 27 March, although full contents are now available online to SSAR members at https://ssarherps.org/herpetological-review-pdfs/. All Natural History Notes, Geographic Distribution Notes, and Book Reviews are Open Access and are now available for download at the same link. If you are not a member of SSAR, please consider joining the leading international herpetological society. Student and online-only rates available. Follow the “Join SSAR” link on the home page. Congratulations to Noah for his outstanding cover photo!

Carl Gans Collections and Charitable Fund Awards

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The Carl Gans Collections and Charitable Fund is pleased to support attendance awards to students—both graduate and undergraduate, but not postdoctoral—who are attending the XI Latin American Congress of Herpetology: Puce, Ecuador (July 24th – July 28th, 2017). 

The awards are open to all students regardless of nationality who are eligible to register at the conference. You may not apply if you applied for our previous 2017 conference grants. The deadline for receipt of applications is April 1, 2017.

You may access additional information about these grants and apply online via the Gans Collections and Charitable Fund’s Grants page.

Metallinou Postdoctoral Travel Award

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SSAR is very pleased to announce the establishment of a new endowment in support of postdoctoral fellows. These awards will assist successful applicants to attend and present their research at SSAR’s annual meetings and meet and interact with leaders in the field, which comes at a key time in their careers when they are seeking permanent positions. Awards are open to postdocs from all countries. The first awards will be made to attend the Society’s 2017 meeting as part of the JMIH event at the Renaissance Austin Hotel, Austin, Texas, USA (July 12–16, 2017). Application deadline is: March 1, 2017.

For full details, click here.

New access to Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (CAAR)

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The Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (CAAR) consists of accounts of taxa prepared by specialists, including synonymy, description, diagnosis, phylogenetic relationships, published descriptions, illustrations, distribution map, and comprehensive list of literature for each taxon. Over 900 accounts have been published since the initiation of the series in 1963. The series covers amphibians and reptiles of the entire Western Hemisphere. Previously, accounts were published as loose-leaf separates; beginning in 2013 accounts are published as on-line PDFs.  All accounts are open access and now are available for free download at the University of Texas Library Repository.

Call for SSAR Symposium Proposals @ JMIH

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Symposia are important components of the Annual Meeting.  They allow researchers in a given subfield to come together and present the latest research in that area; benefit society members through interactions with symposium participants; and can result in proceedings, books, or special topic section in the Journal of Herpetology. We invite the submission of symposium proposals for SSAR at the 2018 Annual Joint Meetings of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. The deadline for electronic submission has been extended to March 17, 2017. See the SSAR website (https://ssarherps.org/meetings/symposium-proposals/) for submission guidelines.  

Journal of Herpetology seeking volunteers for help with second language abstracts

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Journal of Herpetology publishes second language abstracts in all languages.  We seek students (or interested professionals) who are fluent in languages other than English and Spanish to assist the editors in verifying the second language abstracts.  We would like to build a list of herpetologists who would be willing to perform this service for every language.  This would only require a few minutes of your time and would be a great help to the editors.  If you are willing to volunteer, please email Co-Editor Tiffany Doan stating your contact information and the languages in which you have fluency.

2017 Meritorious Teaching Award in Herpetology

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Sponsored by: American Society of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists (ASIH), The Herpetologists’ League (HL), and the Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles (SSAR)

The Herpetology Education Committee is seeking nominations for the 2017 Meritorious Teaching Award in Herpetology, which will be presented at the Joint Meetings of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists (JMIH). This award recognizes superior teaching effectiveness and mentoring of students in the area of herpetology, and provides student members of the North American herpetological societies the opportunity to honor individuals who have made significant contributions to herpetological education, in either the classroom or mentoring student research endeavors. Winners of the award will be encouraged to become active in the HEC, which will facilitate continuity of the HEC and maintenance of the standards by which future awards are bestowed.

Letters of nomination are due to the HEC Chair by 31 March 2017. Please see the linked document below for full details.

Full details: The Meritorious Teaching Award in Herpetology 2017

Zhao Ermi, respected Chinese herpetologist

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We are sad to announce the passing of Ermi Zhao (赵尔宓), a colleague, friend, scientist and world-renowned herpetologist, last month in December 2016. Zhao Ermi is best known as the former deputy director of the Chengdu Institute of Biology, who presided over a prodigiously productive program of new species discoveries, systematic analysis, and biogeographic explorations becoming one of the leading experts of Chinese herpetology. He is best known to western scientists as the co-author of Herpetology of China with Kraig Adler in 1993. In addition, he wrote several books on Chinese amphibians and reptiles and wrote over 140 scientific papers including several new species, subspecies and even generic descriptions for amphibians and reptiles. He became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001 and was named an Honorary Foreign Member of ASIH in 2008. Zhao Ermi will be remembered for his curious mind, his scientific rigor and dedication to herpetology.

 

Obituary (in Chinese)

Zhao Ermi biography (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

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